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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the children of the village prepared for the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) They are washed in the riverbed three times the day before the festival, and then dressed in simple robes.
(b) Their entire bodies are painted with cam wood and no clothing is worn to the festival.
(c) Their bodies are rubbed with palm oil, and their hair is decorated with kola nut shells.
(d) Their heads are shaved in beautiful patterns.

2. How is the weather during the first growing season that Okonkwo starts share-cropping for Nwakibie?
(a) Some good days, and some bad: the yams grow, but not to their potential. Some days were too hot and some rains too severe.
(b) The worst in memory: late rains and scorching sun kill the yams, then torrential downpours wash the seeds away.
(c) The beginning of the season is poor weather for growing yams, but the second planting of the season grows huge yams, sweet and plump.
(d) The best growing weather ever: yams flourish with the nightly rains and sunny days.

3. What does the law state in Umuofia if a woman runs away from her husband?
(a) Her husband is allowed to go get her, dragging her back home by the hair.
(b) She must be left in the forest to die.
(c) Her bride-price must be returned to the husband.
(d) She is to be killed and left unburied for the vultures and wild animals.

4. What does the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?
(a) She comes out of the cave, giving Okonkwo and Ekwefi a lock of Ezinma's hair. She tells them to bury it in the yam field.
(b) She comes out of the cave and tells Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Agbala wants them to leave, or Ezinma will be sacrificed.
(c) She doesn't say a word to Okonkwo or Ekwefi, but carries Ezinma back to Okonkwo's compound and places Ezinma in bed.
(d) She comes out of the cave alone, telling Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Ezinma has to remain in the cave for two days and nights.

5. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?
(a) Osugo is complaining and whining.
(b) Osugo is talking in a feminine voice.
(c) Osugo is making womanly hand gestures during the meeting.
(d) Okonkwo calls Osugo a woman because Osugo has no titles and contradicted what Okonkwo had been saying.

6. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(b) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.
(c) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.
(d) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.

7. Who is the powerful orator that informs the ten thousand men of the emergency facing the nine villages of Umuofia?
(a) Okoye
(b) Ogbuefi Udo
(c) Nwoye
(d) Ogbuefi Ezeugo

8. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(b) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.
(c) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(d) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.

9. Which men fight in the final wrestling match of the day?
(a) The leaders of the teams are made up of the best wrestlers in the nine villages.
(b) Men chosen by the elders from each of the nine villages.
(c) Men elected in each of the nine villages.
(d) The wealthiest men from each of the nine villages.

10. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?
(a) That Agbala needs to talk to Okonkwo
(b) That Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves wants to see Ezinma
(c) That Agbala wants to see all Okonkwo's wives
(d) That Agbala is putting a curse on Okonkwo's house

11. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?
(a) To ask for wealth, prosperity, and many newborn sons.
(b) When they are followed by misfortune, when they have a dispute with their neighbors, to see their futures, and to talk to the spirits.
(c) To find out if their wives are being faithful.
(d) To ask for a cure for a fatal disease.

12. How long is Ikemenfuna in Okonkwo's care?
(a) Two days
(b) Three months
(c) Twelve years
(d) Three years

13. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(b) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(c) To buy yams for his three wives.
(d) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.

14. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.
(b) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(c) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(d) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.

15. Ezinma tells her mother, Ekwefi, that her upper eyelid is twitching. What does Ekwefi tell Ezinma the significance of the twitch is?
(a) It means Ezinma is going to cry.
(b) It means Ezinma will see something.
(c) It means the rains will come early this year.
(d) It means Ezinma will have many children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, is celebrating his daughter's uri. Why does this day put the entire neighborhood into a festive air?

2. How does eighteen-year-old, Okonkwo, bring honor to his village?

3. Ezinma offers to bring Okonkwo's chair to the wrestling match for him. Why did he refuse his daughter's offer?

4. Obiageli, Nwoye's sister, comes home crying because her water pot is broken. How did her waterpot break?

5. What is the one passion that rules Okonkwo's life?

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